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The Edible Woman

            Jung's comment, "The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when the conscious reason is blind and impotent", is indicative to Margaret Atwood's book The Edible Woman. We see how the unconscious affects a woman mind unknowingly. The mind and body have an inter connection. They work with each other even though the conscious mind may not know it. .
             Atwood's main character, Marian McAlpin, was ordinary. After she graduated college she started her simplistic job. Her relationships with people, friends, and her boyfriend, were purely surface. She began feeling crippled by the mundaneness of her already mapped out life. She feared the thought of being the annoying old lady in the basement. She feared living a married life with children, miserable like Carla. She feared the very thought of the "pension plan" for it symbolized the future. A future she hadn't began to question until she met Duncan. We see a shift of characteristics between Duncan and Marian. Her job is to chew up words to make it easier for people to read and understand and then test these people with her revisions. Duncan, however, treats the test as a psychological evaluation ex amplifying that one should think and question what is simplistic. This is what Marian begins to do. .
             She needed to escape the thoughts that resided in her unconscious mind. She feared being pinned down. We get images of this through out the book. Her thoughts of cannibalism represents her fear of consumption. Destruction. Peter erupts these feelings inside her. His proposal of marriage charged her with such irrational fear that her physical self started to react to her unconscious self. Her inability of eating animals was a major symbol of her not wanted to pin down life. This transgressed to not being able to eat vegetables, because they too seemed life like to her. One can argue that she was only able to eat pasta and beans because they are starchy and stiff.


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1. the edible woman

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2. Margaret Atwood The Edible Woman

In Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman, however, Marian is still submissive to her male partner Peter. ... Though eras have changed and evolved, it is evident to see in The Edible Woman how Marian is presented with various roles of women in her society. ... The Edible Woman is divided into three parts that represents a shift of pronoun. ... The symbol that plays a significant role throughout The Edible Woman is the cake. ... The Edible Women shows that some women can't get out of the past stereotypical lifestyle of a woman's and where one woman, Marian McAlpine escapes from the ...

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3. the edible woman

The protagonist of her first novel, The Edible Woman, is Marian MacAlpin, a perfectly 'ordinary' young woman, fresh out of university and happy with her allotted role in life. ... Marian is one of three female prototypes presented in the novel, contrasted with her flatmate, Ainsley, a boisterously independent, man-hunting young woman, and Clara, a friend from college, angelic and frail, at once part of the material world and yet somehow above it. ... The remedy is for Marian to magnify her role as an edible product and she bakes a woman shaped cake, an icon of emotional cannibalism...

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4. The Edible Woman as an Anti-Comedy

Sexual jokes are the main theme in comedy in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman, but are they still funny after realizing that Marian is only being used for sex, or that Len's attraction to young girls is used to manipulate him? The Edible Woman is an anti-comedy because uses comical and ironic scenes which relate to serious and dark problems in reality. ... Atwood uses anti-comedy to emphasize the traditional ritual of men chasing after women, and the woman runs just enough to let the man catch her. ... Atwood expresses the themes of the traditional chase ritual between genders, dis...

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Through further analysis of some stereotypical female roles from Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony, and Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman it will become evident that the females in these two novels are themselves heroes. ... Therefore, in order to examine the heroines in The Edible Woman and The Jade Peony we need to know what heroine-like qualities to look for. ... The role of the "passive female" is one played by Marian, from Atwood's The Edible Woman, and by Lily, from Choy's The Jade Peony. ... Marian is consumed by the people around her and we can see this by the ti...

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6. The Edible Women

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7. literature

In The Edible Woman, Atwood portrays women as victims who need to overcome the controlling male figures in their lives, and illustrates her views through changes in narrative point of view. The Edible woman is a more simple, sequential storyline, I being a male living in today's society felt that I could never relate to books like these, The Edible Woman gives proof to this theory of dominance and submission. ...

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